Isang Enders

Isang Enders has rapidly established himself as a dynamic artist in search of new concepts and works for the cello, as displayed in his particularly wide range of repertoire. Upon the CD/vinyl release of his recording of the Bach suites for solo cello, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed his “stunning technical prowess and precocious musical understanding”, leading to “an interpretation that can measure itself with the best.” The BBC Music Magazine also published a rave review.
Isang Enders concertizes around the globe, and his exceptionally wide range of repertoire is on full display in his solo and chamber music appearances. Thus he has performed Unsuk Chin’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in Stavanger, Paris, and São Paolo. More recently, with his colleagues of the Sitkovetsky Trio, he performed the world première of Charlotte Bray’s Triple Concerto in the UK. He is a regular guest in Germany at the music festivals of Heidelberg and Rheingau, as well as at further renowned festivals an international scale. Isang Enders has often shared the podium with renowned conductors in major classical music venues. He has thus collaborated with Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Myung-Whun Chung, and Eliahu Inbal. In a duo collaboration with renowned pianist Igor Levit he is one of the prominently featured artists at the Shostakovich Festival in Gohrisch (Germany). Isang Enders has recorded on the Oehms Classics, Berlin Classics and BIS labels.
Born in 1988 in Frankfurt, Isang Enders was accepted as a gifted young student into the class of Michael Sanderling at the age of twelve. He has received much inspiration and encouragement from masterclasses given by Gustav Rivinius, Truls Mørk, and, above all, through the mentoring of American cellist Lynn Harrell. After a four-year stint as Principle Cello of the Dresden Staatskapelle, he went freelance in 2012.
Isang Enders plays on a cello made in Paris in 1840 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume – the acquisition of which is supported through a generous grant from the Francesco Von Mendelssohn Fund (USA) – as well as on a cello by Tobias Gräter (Heidelberg, 2015).